Its almost over! This went fast. But I'm tired so I'll sum this up fast. Today we:
-went to Brew's football game where they got spanked
-tyler worked on his aunts car all afternoon
-didn't get the house cleaned up as much as it needed
-made an apple pie!
-good.night
For some reason I took no pictures today. What's wrong with me? Hallie looked super cute too! I hate when I do that! I'll make up for it tomorrow :) (warning)
Im kinda bummed to see that everyone is dressing their babies as lady bugs this year! I had plans to get creative with Hallie, but then I took the easy route and thought it would be cute since almost everything she owns is adorned with lady bugs on it and we call her our bug. Turns out she's just in the "in" crowd now for 2011 Halloween costumes. Whoo? This will so not happen next year. Im preparing already!Well tonight was supposed to be the ward party. But Hallie was not in the best mood, and it started raining and I didn't want her to be out in the rain (it was in a backyard) so we didn't end up going. I was entered into a chili contest so I had spent the day making chili from scratch. I call it one armed chili, because my daughter is spoiled and I made most of it holding her. It turned out pretty good. I don't think I would have won, it doesn't have a major wow factor. But not bad. Anyways, we have TONS left over..so if you need a dinner or are in the mood for chili (perfect weather for it!) then call me! We still dressed Hallie up for it though. Speaking of little one, she is 3 months old today! Time has flown! I love watching how much she has changed and I can't wait to see all the changes she will go through in the next 3 months. We sure love her!
Tonight we had a meeting with the bishop. Then we went around and gave neighbors the cookies we had made. We came home, played with Hallie, ate ice cream and watched Monsters Inc. Now Tylers rubbing out all the knots in my back. I have an awesome husband. My back gets so tense from holding Hallie all day. If I was rich..instead of hiring a maid, or a chef, or anyone to help with the baby...I would get a personal masseuse!
Today was a lazy day. Tyler wasn't feeling well so he came home at lunch and we all laid in bed for a few hours. The first couple of them were spent playing with our cute baby girl. She's too funny. Today her pants kept going past her feet and she could not figure out where they went. But then she learned how to pull her pants up to see them, so she did that all day. She sure is smart! We watched ET and all took a nap. I woke up and did the dishes which really needed to be done. Hallie woke up from her nap at the same time she always does (4:30) and we all went to Walmart to grab a few necessities. We went to Picos for dinner/family night and then came home and frosted our Halloween cookies from last night! Since there's a ton of cookies and only the 2 of us I think were going to drop some off at a few families from the ward. Sharing is caring!
Tyler and I spoke in church yesterday. First time as a married couple, cute right? Our Ward is so small we'll probably be up for round two soon. I talked on faith and Tyler spoke on Scriptures. It turned out good. Grandma Julie and the Picos took Hallie and she did really good. She's changing so much right now. She's learned that she can bring her toes to her face, hold onto her bottle, lick everything, and roll from side to side. She's such a ball of energy and she's a lot of fun to watch and grow. After church Hallie and I took a nap while Tyler had church meetings. When he got home we made Halloween cookies to decorate tonight. One more thing checked off the bucket list!
Hallie was so sleepy all day! She woke up at 6:30 but then went back to bed at 8 and slept till 1. We went to lunch with Mica. There's a new Tia Rosa's in Gilbert and it was so good. Then when I got back home Hallie took a nap from 2-7. I'm telling you..she's tired today. I don't know why. She slept good last night. When Tyler came home we went to a pumpkin festival at Dana Park. They had all kinds of vendors, most were for little girls stuff, but Hallie already has so much. Then we went to Hobby Lobby and got some stuff to make costumes. And of course my phone crapped out again so we went to sprint yet again to get a hard reset done. So now I'm trying to get Hallie to bed so that I can work on my talk for church tomorrow. This is the longest I've ever procrastinated on a church talk!
Tonight we went halloween costume shopping for me and Tyler. We thought we were set on our costume choice and then got to Spirit and started rethinking! Dang! Oh and why do halloween costumes have to cost so much? Most of the time you only wear it once!
Hallie learned that she can grab her toes and pull them to her face today. So cute! She loves her little toes almost as much as I do. She's been on soy formula since yesterday. Today was a good day, so hopefully we've found a way to make her happier!
Well yesterday, once again, didn't really go according to what we planned. We were going to walk around the neighborhood and look at the decorated houses because there are some pretty good ones, but then my mom wanted us to come out for chili. So we ended up spending the day at her haunted house putting Hallie in my first Halloween costume. Hallie will be a week older than I was on Halloween, but the costume was huge on her. I guess I was a much bigger baby. I'll have to find a picture of me as a baby in it and compare
Well I tried putting this up two times last night and for some reason it wouldn't let me. So let's hope three times the charm. Yesterday to celebrate Day 1 of our countdown we had Halloween movie day. Hallie and I watched Halloweentown 1 and 2 while Tyler was at work. I love those movies. Then we heard that our brother in law Michael was back in the hospital. He got his gull bladder removed maybe a month ago, way back last weekend for pancreatitis, then was back the same day he was discharged for an inflamed appendix that they took out. Poor kid. Send him and Kinzie your prayers! After we visited them, we went to Blockbuster to find a movie. We had just watched Hocus Pocus a fewdays before so we wanted to find something new. I've been such a pansy lately, that I refused to watch anything too scary before we went to bed. So we settled on Coraline. Which is scary enough jeez! We snuggled on the mattress that is still on our living room floor from last weekend and we snacked on oreos, chips, Pico's salsa, and pepsi. It was a good night!
I tried getting a good picture of Hallie's outfit but she was just so wiggly! So its a little blurry. But she's still cute as a button! (Can you tell I just watched Coraline?)
The 13 days of Hallieween start tomorrow! I am so stoked for this idea! For those who don't know, Halloween is a HUGE hit in my family. It is like my mom's Christmas. She shops for new decorations all year round. If you're ever in Queen Creek around Halloween time, you should check out my moms front yard. Its pretty spooktacular.
I also love this time of year. There are so many things that I love to do once fall hits. Which inspired me to start a Peel family tradition yay! Every major holiday/season (spring,summer,fall/halloween,winter/christmas), we're going to create a bucketlist as a family of the things we would like to do together.
So...I've come up with the 13 days of HALLIEween. I know Hallie is really young, but you only have one first Halloween, so why not start the tradition now. I also realize I won't be able to call it Hallieween after our other kids are here..so were taking the opportunity while we can. Its cuuute right?
Over the next 13 days, we have one activity to do as a family that relates to Halloween. I also have a different Halloween outfit for Hallie for each of these days :) so if you need ideas for seasonal activities, or if you're like me and like looking at pictures of my cute baby, or if you just have nothing better to do..check back everyday to see what were doing as we count down to Halloween night!
Last Sunday, October 9th, we were able to bless our little Hallie. We woke up early, put her in her huge dress and waited for family to show up to our house to head over to the church. I was overwhelmed with how many friends and family members showed up! We about filled the whole left side of the congregation. And that's not a joke. It was quite impressive..especially because there were three other babies being blessed. Ty had been really nervous preparing for what he thought he wanted to say. He did not want to be the first one to go up, but of course he was. Tyler had gotten permission to invite 4-5 others to join in the circle. We asked his two grandpas, my grandpa, my brother, and Michael our brother in law. As they walked up to the front and joined in the circle with Bishop, Grandpa Pico stopped and called all of Tyler's cousins up. Haha if you know Coach Pico..this is completely like him. If a baby is going to blessed, the whole family is gonna do it. I just had to laugh. Even with a screaming baby (the only one out of the 4 babies being blessed) Tyler gave Hallie a beautiful blessing. That she would grow up and find a testimony of her own and know the gospel's truth, that she would prepare to meet an eternal companion, and that she would be an example to those around her. He did such a great job, I was so proud of him!
After Sacrament we all went back to our house and since we had church at 8:30 we made breakfast. Pancakes, bacon, fruit...yummm! And of course the Pico's were all glued to the tv for the Vikings game. It turned out really nice. Tyler and I loved having so many family and friends in our house together. We live for that kind of stuff. It turned out to be such a great day.
The next day I put Hallie back in her blessing dress and took some pictures of her (see below). I think they turned out dang cute for using a digital camera! But how could they not??
Happy Friday! Before we jump start this weekend..I still need to catch up on the last! We had a lot going on. Tyler had been to drill the first weekend of october, so when this last weekend came rolling by I was stoked to be able to spend some time with him. That's one thing I hate most about Tyler going to drill. Its hard enough to have him wake up, go to work, come home eat then go to bed during the week..but it really sucks when he's away Saturday and Sunday and then is back full force on Monday. That means I have to go two whole weeks of just seeing him for a couple hours each day..and if you know me..I need my Tyler time. So I was glad we got him to ourselves for two whole days last weekend.
Friday we wrapped up house sitting at my moms out in queen creek. We all went to dinner at olive garden for my brothers 17th(wow) birthday. Then the boys went to my dads and Tyler and I hung out at my moms for a little then headed home for the first time in a week. The next day we had planned to just clean the house all day long. But we woke up Saturday morning to SUCH a beautiful day..that we knew we didn't want to waste it inside. So we stopped and grabbed Sonic and headed to Tyler's brother's football game. He scored 3 touchdowns! The best part of the game was Hallie was soo good! She looked so cute (duh) in her little pea coat and just sat with Tylers mom watching the world around her. It was nice to spend a morning outside with nice weather and a happy baby. Next we took Hallie to Costco for her first time. Now that were on formula..we figured it'd be best to buy bulk..so we scored some good deals. Plus who can beat boxes of 216 diapers?! Love me some Costco! We also got Hallie a halloween costume that she looks oh so cute in. Stay tuned for the 13 days of HALLIEween to see what it is. And of course we got some lunch with the Picos along with the rest of the world at Costco. Hallie fell asleep for most of the shopping trip, so we decided to push it and do our WIC shopping trip at Walmart. Gotta love free food! Hallie slept through that too. Yay! We got home and started cleaning..and then soon got distracted with projects. Tyler decided he wanted to paint the backdoor brown (it looks awesome) and I decided I wanted to make some Halloween decorations. Before we knew it the clock said it was 9 pm and the house was still a mess. We popped our olive garden leftovers in the microwave, sat down and watched some CSI while we gulped down our dinner, and then dove into cleaning. Luckily I've been getting better at balancing Hallie and housework through the week, so it didn't take us that long. After we were done all 3 of us snuggled into bed and dozed off.
Sunday morning we had the support of LOTS (my husbands mexican remember?) Of family and friends who came to our early sacrament meeting where Tyler gave Hallie a beautiful blessing. I'll post more on that later when I get pictures up. It turned out to be a great day
Monday Tyler went back to work after a wonderful weekend and Hallie and I had a lazy day. For family home evening we had braided spaghetti bread (thanks pinterest!) And then went over to the temple to walk around. I found out Tyler hadn't been inside the visitor's center since he was like 5!?! So we walked around, got to look at the beautiful art display (if you get a chance to go...GO! There are some peices that will blow your mind) and we listened to the family presentation. And of course Hallie cried through most of it (sorry people). But we love the temple and we can't wait to seal ourselves as a forever family.
I love spending time together as a family. I think that's one of mine and Tyler's biggest similarities is we love our families and hope to have our kids grow up as family oriented as we are. There is nothing better. Especially during this time of year!
Funny story: Earlier this week when I had made braided spaghetti bread for dinner, I had made the french bread homemade during the day. It made a big loaf, so I split it in half and froze some. Yesterday I pulled out the frozen half to thaw to make dinner. Hallie and I met Tyler at his work with intentions to work out (she was too pissed off..we couldn't get anything done) so we came home to a ripped up Ziplock bag on the floor. I knew it was the bread dough. And knowing that I had left it on the oven towards the back led me to knowing Chloe was the one to get it down. Now my sweet Chloe dog is almost perfect (not kidding) but she sure has a knack for getting things off the countertops. Lacey hasn't learned this habit thank goodness. I did what I normally do when the girls have eaten some unknown substance..googled it. Turns out bread dough is toxic to dogs. Yayyy. They said either the dough will get warm and rise and suffocate them..or while the yeast ferments the dog can get alcohol poisoning. As we were researching we noticed Chloe was getting more and more swollen every minute. Her cheeks were even huge. We gave her lots of pepto and kept our eye on her. Oh..and by the way..did you know if you call the Animal Poison Control Center they want $65 to give you their advice?! Which is probably just saying go to a vet! Absolutely ridiculous! We hung up so fast! So I started looking up what would happen if the bread had already had time to rise before being frozen and was eaten while it was thawing. After pages and pages of google..our nerves were somewhat settled by hearing that most often the chemicals in yeast are deactivated while they are cold and not as potent. We may just have a drunk swollen dog. Well Chloe sure did swell, and smell like a drunk..but we didn't have her running into walls or anything like that. Darn. But we'll just add that to the list of things Chloe has eaten and survived.
Sorry this is so long..I guess this is what I get for having backlogged all of our happenings. Tyler's grandparents are watching Hallie tonight so we can go on a date. Ooh-la-la. Aka..the dollar theater whoo! Remember..the 13 days of Hallieween are starting next week! I'll write a blog in the next few days explaining what it is and why you'll want to check back! Have a Happy weekend everyone!
